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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






2. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






3. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






4. Planning technique used to provide products - services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development






5. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






6. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






7. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






8. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






9. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






10. The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact






11. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






12. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






13. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






14. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






15. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






16. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






17. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






18. The process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller and awarding a contract






19. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






20. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






21. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






22. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






23. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






24. A product - result or service generated by a process






25. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






26. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






27. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






28. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






29. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






30. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






31. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






32. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






33. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






34. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






35. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






36. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






37. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






38. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






39. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






40. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






41. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






42. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






43. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






44. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






45. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






46. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






47. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






48. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






49. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






50. A component of work performed during the course of a project